To:PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHERN COMMITTEES[1]AND TO THE SOUTHERN BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.S.D.L.P.

Written:Written later than October 5, 1904Published:First published in 1930.

      Sent from Geneva to Odessa.

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      Moscow,Volume 34,

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Inreply to your resolution on the desirability of an Organising Committee of
the Majority being set up, we hasten to inform you that we entirely agree with
your idea. We should prefer only to call the group not an Organising Committee,
but a Bureau of the Majority Committees. We do not consider it possible for us
to appoint the B.M.C. ourselves, and are restricting ourselves to recommending
comrades Martyn, Demon and K., Baron, Sergei Petrovich, Felix and Lebedev, who
(as you know) have actually begun the work of uniting the Majority
committees. We think that, given the direct support of several committees, these
comrades could act as a special group uniting the activities of supporters of
the Majority.

(Participantsof the Meeting of
the 22[2])

[1]Threeconferences of local Bolshevik committees—the Southern, Caucasian
and Northern conferences—were held in September–December 1904. (1) The
Southern Regional Conference (three committees: those of Odessa,
Ekaterinoslav and Nikolayev) was held in September 1904. The conference
declared in favour of convening the Third Congress of the Party and
proposed that an Organising Committee for convening the congress be set up,
consisting of R. S. Zemlyachka, M. N. Lyadov and A. Bogdanov. The
conference instructed Lenin to constitute the full Organising Committee.

(2)TheRegional Conference of the Caucasian Union Committee (four
committees: those of Baku, Batum, Tiflis and Imeretia and Mingrelia) was
held in November 1904 in Tiflis. The conference declared in favour of
immediately convening the Third Congress of the Party and elected a bureau
to make preparations for the congress.

(3)TheNorthern Regional Conference (six committees: those of
St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tver, Riga, Northern and Nizhni-Novgorod) was held
in December 1904. The conference passed a vote of non-confidence in the
Party’s central bodies seized by the Mensheviks, declared strongly in
favour of convening the Third Congress of the Party, and set up a special
bureau for organising the congress.

[2]Thisrefers to the meeting held in the neigbourhood of Geneva on Lenin’s
initiative during the early part of August 1904. Themeeting was attended by 19 members of the R.S.D.L.P., including Lenin,
Krupskaya, Olminsky, Lyadov, and Lepeshinsky.  The initial variant of the
appeal “To the Party”, written by Lenin, was adopted ^^(see Vol. 7 of
this edition)^^. Shortly afterwards three more Bolsheviks added their votes
to the decisions of this meeting, and the appeal “To the Party” was
issued on behalf of 22 Bolsheviks.

Theappeal became the Bolsheviks’ programme of struggle for convening the
Third Congress of the Party.